Mental Fitness Tip #2: Expectations Create Our Reality - Taken From Honestly Better Mental Fitness Session 7

What should you do when “life gives you lemons?” You’ve planned a nice picnic and found yourself in the pouring rain – do you go home disappointed or embrace it and have fun playing in the mud with your children?

In this episode, coach Travis Ramsey goes over 4 principles you can follow to become more mentally fit. Listen to learn about the impact of mental fitness on life expectancy, how to approach things when they don’t go according to plan, and why you should “take care of your feet.”

• We control our own reality in our expectations.
• Sometimes, you have the expectation that something was going to be a certain way, but then things shift, and that shift creates the distress within you because “it wasn’t supposed to be this way.”
• Travis points out the idea of expectations creating the situation in which we are experiencing.
• As Travis puts it, “expectations create our own internal experience.”
• Travis shares his involvement with a study on anger – it turns out that it has a lot to do with expectations creating our own internal experiences.
• It’s really about living in the present and not with some judgment of the way life, the weather, people, or anything else should be.
• So, one of the key questions then becomes, “how do you remain present in the moment?”
• Mental preparedness helps you get prepared for something, and it enables you to experience it differently.
• When you find yourself feeling frustrated, disappointed, angry or anything else that isn’t a positive feeling, take a step back.
• Take a step back and try to release yourself, others, and the world, from your expectations of the ways things should be.

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